making sense? i don't think so.

for my orientalist course, i have to analyse a text by Edward Said.

What Said said, he said. He is therefore an idition. And he’s also staid. Nuff said!

i think i have a pretty good beginning wright here. if i can only expand on it a bit, and manage to define "iditon" in a nicely postcolonial way...

duty fulfilled

the Austen essay was marked and praised, which makes me very happy because
1) it's the first literary essay i've done on this level, and i feel lost amidst all the jargon of my fellow student, and
2) i did a lot of work, and i like praise.
as a reward... or something... i found out which Austen heroine i am, in one of the worst quizzes ever designed. did you know, Austen only put "quiz" in the mouth of her more frivolous and unpleasant characters? perhaps i shouldn't have done it after all...

undutifulness

i made up a new word today. then i googled undutifulness, and learned that it exists. yay. it enabled me to chop a few words off the word count, which is one of the most important things in essays, apparently. that, and creating neat and proper footnoes (like the tyope?) and bibliographies. after i had whittled and polished, with the help of my excellent spouse, i had exactly ten minutes left before the deadline to hand in the essay. perfect timing, as always.

now i can spend my days in carefree idleness for a while. all the tasks that are left are laying a floor, packing up and cleaning a house, moving into another...

i'm writing a masterpiece (yeah, wright) on Mansfield Park read from a postcolonial point of view. researching Jane Austen is fun, except for the inevitable hash-ups of the opening line from "Pride & Prejudice" that will keep appearing again and again. it's unbelievable how bad this elegant sentence can become in the hands of copywriting philistines:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a visitor to Hampshire must be in search of an appreciation of Jane Austen." (janetour)

...err, is it, now?

luckily, there are places where it is put to rather more witty use:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of a large book collection must be in want of a life." (katherine's diary)

speaking of which, there is this large pile of books which i fear i will have to read now...